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How can I determine which version of FFMPEG comes by default?

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I am honestly confused beyond belief about my package that I have installed for FFMPEG. It is, according to Synaptic, version:

4:0.8.1-1really0u1

For some reason, I feel like this is not the version that would come in the repositories and I feel like another PPA that I may have used installed a wrong version. I believe it was the VLC PPA for nightly builds.

Can anyone who does not have this PPA on their system tell me what version of FFMPEG they are running?

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answered 2 Years ago housecoarmer · Accepted Answer

Yours is a PPA version, which is most probably similar to the official version. See below, from Precise (Ubuntu 12.04):



$ dpkg --list ffmpeg

ii  ffmpeg                                 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1                        

Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package)



$ apt-cache policy ffmpeg

ffmpeg:

  Installed: 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1

  Candidate: 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1



$ ffmpeg



ffmpeg version 0.8.1-4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers

  built on Mar 22 2012 05:09:06 with gcc 4.6.3



.....

To reinstall the official version over the PPA version, you can either use the ppa-purge script (install that first!), or if you have already deleted the PPA, use

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg=4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1

You may have to throw a --reinstall switch in there if it fails.